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Monday, June 10, 2013

A Gallup Puzzle (in Nebraska)

When I first started piecing my own Gallup family together,
I found an “odd” Gallup that I couldn’t put within my own Gallup line.My grandmother used to talk a lot about her
Aunt Lila.My grandmother never knew her
natural grandmother…but she did know her step grandmother very well….and her
step grandmother’s relatives became my grandmother’s relatives. (Tamsey
Perry m. George Christian Shawver and became my great grandmother’s step
mother) So…I understood how Aunt Lila fit (she was Tamsey Perry Shawver’s
sister, but how did her husband, Albert Gallup?

Lila Corine Perry was born 7 Jun 1878 in Bridgewater, Adair
Co., IA.She was the daughter of Joseph
Henry Perry and Sara Ada Drake and was the fourth oldest in a family of
seven.Lila married Albert George Gallup
on 19 Dec 1896 in Monona Co., IA.By
1910, Lila was living in Burt Co., NE with her growing family.There were a multitude of Gallup’s living in
Burt Co., NE and I am sure that Albert knew the family.I assumed that he was connected to my Gallup
branch either through Silas Gallup and Phoebe Montanye or James Ebenezer Gallup
and wife Ella Bacon.To my surprise he
was not connected to either family…at least not closely.

One thing that the search for Albert Gallup did for me, was
force me to fill in the blanks as much as possible.This assured me that Albert was not a close
connection, so now it was time to approach him as I would any other
genealogical mystery.My first step was
to check the census records.I located
Albert in Fairbank, Buchanan Co., IA in 1870 as a two year old with his parents
Weldon Porter Gallup and mother Mary.I
found that Weldon Porter Gallup was born in Italy, Yates Co., NY.As a young man, he moved to Mercer Co., PA
and married Mary Ann McGranahan on 30 Mar 1863.Unfortunately, this bit of information did not immediate connect me back
further into the Gallup line.I have
Gallup’s dating back to my ancestor, John Gallop b. 1591 in Mosterdon, Dorset,
England who was married to Christobel Bruschett.John Gallop arrived in Boston on the Mary and
John in 1630.I am descended through his
son, John Gallup (m. Hannah Lake) who moved to Connecticut.My Gallup’s moved from Connecticut to New
York in 1796 and my Gallup branch left New York in 1887 for Nebraska.Weldon Porter Gallup didn’t fit in with the
descendants of John Gallup and Hannah Lake. In the nine generations from John Gallup to
myself, Weldon Porter Gallup didn’t fit.He was part of my Connecticut branch, nor New York and certainly not
Nebraska.So, it was time to see if I
could take him back a bit further.My
1987 Gallup genealogy only took him back one further generation – but that was
the important key.

Back in 1997, I was unemployed and bored, so I input all of
the 1966 Gallup genealogy into my database.Since that point, I have communicated with a lot of researchers and the
majority of them are descended through the John Gallup (m. Hannah Lake) line.When I referred to the 1987 Gallup genealogy,
I found an entry for Weldon Porter Gallup and his father William Weldon Gallup
but nothing further.I found an entry in
my database of a William Weldon Gallup.William
Weldon Gallup was also born in New York, traveled to Pennsylvania and was
buried in the same county in Iowa that Weldon Porter Gallup married his
wife.After connecting with other
researchers, I had finally connected Albert George Gallup to his Nebraska
distant cousins…and it stretches back many generations before they meet:

Here is Albert’s line:

Albert George Gallup m. Lila Corine Perry

Weldon Porter Gallup m. Mary A. McGranahan

William Weldon Gallup m. Minerva Mary Holcomb

Joseph Gallop m. Jerusha Treat

William Gallop m. Hannah

Benjamin Gallup m. Theoda Parke

John Gallup III m. Elizabeth Harris

John Gallup m. Hannah Lake

My nearest direct Gallup ancestor (with that last name) is
Edith Phoebe Gallup my great great grandmother who was married to Orlando
Gage.Here is her line:

John Gallup III and Bendam Gallup are both the sons of John Gallup m. Hannah Lake

I must say that Albert George Gallup’s line is much easier
to spell out than mine.Edith’s parents
are buried in Lyons, Burt Co., NE with many of their children also in the same
cemetery.Albert and his wife, Lila are
buried about fifteen miles away in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Decatur, Burt Co.,
NE.My genealogy programs tells me that
my great great grandmother Edith and Albert Gallup were half 5th
cousins.I suspect that the Gallups in
Burt Co., NE never knew what their family connection was with Albert Gallup.